Astronomy and the Heavens

[PolkaDot]

The people at Nasa attached musical notes to the objects in a Hubble Space Telescope photo, and came up with this.  Real music from the stars.

This reminds of an ocean organ I heard once. It was an art installation on the seaside, I can’t to remember where that was though.  😎

Edit: Zadar, Croatia Sea Organ

[Rikki Gins]

This reminds of an ocean organ I heard once. It was an art installation on the seaside, I can’t to remember where that was though.  😎

Edit: Zadar, Croatia Sea Organ

Oh, that is nice.  It just keeps on playing away, even if nobody is around.

[PolkaDot]

Oh, that is nice.  It just keeps on playing away, even if nobody is around.

I love that idea too...we may both be romantics @Rikki Gins .

[PB]

I came across an interesting app that allows you to see what the Hubble space telescope took a picture of on your birthday.  Here:  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

Here is the photo that the telescope took on my birthday back in 2002.  It shows Arp 220, a couple of spiral galaxies that started to collide some 700 million years ago.  They are located about 250 million light-years from Earth.

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I was surprised to find these deep space photos were actually colorized by scientists.  The colors represent data, but are not what our eyes would see if we were riding along on the Hubble (or any other Nasa space photo)…

https://petapixel.com/2019/08/02/this-is-how-scientists-colorize-hubble-photos-of-deep-space/ 

[PB]

Then there's this, radio telescopes pick up radio waves from space which are then turned into photo images...

https://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/image.html

[Rikki Gins]

I love that idea too...we may both be romantics @Rikki Gins .

Without a doubt, @PolkaDot!

[Rikki Gins]

Then there's this, radio telescopes pick up radio waves from space which are then turned into photo images...

https://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/image.html

Wow!

[PolkaDot]

I was surprised to find these deep space photos were actually colorized by scientists.  The colors represent data, but are not what our eyes would see if we were riding along on the Hubble (or any other Nasa space photo)…

https://petapixel.com/2019/08/02/this-is-how-scientists-colorize-hubble-photos-of-deep-space/ 

[Up All Night]

Saturn and Jupiter are both near the almost Full Mon tonight.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

[Rikki Gins]

One of our spacecraft (OSIRIS REx) flew down to asteroid Bennu earlier today, where it got close enough to grab some of the surface with a probe.  It didn't land, it just got the sample and bounced back up.  It will return the sample of asteroid in 2023.

https://news.yahoo.com/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-mission-012812152.html

[LittleChris]

One of our spacecraft (OSIRIS REx) flew down to asteroid Bennu earlier today, where it got close enough to grab some of the surface with a probe.  It didn't land, it just got the sample and bounced back up.  It will return the sample of asteroid in 2023.

https://news.yahoo.com/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-mission-012812152.html

That’s wild!

[Up All Night]

Here's a link for the best way to see the meteor showers (around Dallas) on the nights they peak this year: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/leonids.html#tb-meteor_times

[TigerLily]

Viewing the Christmas Star on MidWinter Night

Here's something for all you Christians and Pagans and plain ol' stargazers

The Great Conjunction of 2020 will brighten the darkest day of the year as the two giant planets of our solar system draw closer together in the night sky than they have been in centuries.

By chance, the day that Jupiter and Saturn will appear closest for Earth-based stargazers is Dec. 21, the winter solstice, which is the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere.

The double planet view is also known by some astronomers as the "Christmas Star" because of a belief that the biblical tale of the Star of Bethlehem could have been a planetary conjunction. Although around two thousand years ago, Venus and Jupiter were closest — not Jupiter and Saturn, as is the case for the "Christmas Star" of 2020.

On the evenings of December 15 through 18, stargazers can easily find Jupiter and Saturn moving in conjunction by looking toward the waxing crescent moon in the western sky 45 minutes after sunset, according to NASA's Night Sky Network.

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[Up All Night]

[anniem]

Thank you!!